Evochess – AI feels more like human opponent

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This chess variant's theme is evolution. One morning in early 2016 I woke up with an idea: what if chess were built around promotion? Eventually, this resulted in the following game:It plays like chess, but you start with only pawns and a king. Pawns can be promoted to bishops or knights, while those minor pieces can be promoted to rooks. Their promotion rights accumulate (every three pawn moves, pawn promotion right; every three minor piece moves, minor piece to rook right). Rooks are transformed to a knight or a bishop on the rook's fifth move.Recently, I built a playable version. The AI opponent works on phone with no internet. The search engine uses a lightweight neural net. The engine w

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Website: penkovsky.github.io/evochess